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BE.010J / 2.790J / 6.025J / 7.38J / 10.010J Introduction to Bioengineering, Spring 2005
(2005-06)Designed as a freshmen seminar course, faculty from various School of Engineering departments describe the research and educational opportunities specific to and offered by their departments. Background lectures by the ... -
BE.010J Introduction to Bioengineering, Spring 2006
(2006-06)Designed as a freshmen seminar course, faculty from various School of Engineering departments describe the research and educational opportunities specific to and offered by their departments. Background lectures by the ... -
BE.011J Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This course provides an introduction to the physical chemistry of biological systems. Topics include: connection of macroscopic thermodynamic properties to microscopic molecular properties using statistical mechanics, ... -
BE.102 Macroepidemiology, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course presents a unique and challenging perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ... -
BE.104J Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical ... -
BE.410J Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales. Topics include: structure of tissues and the molecular basis for macroscopic ... -
BE.420J Biomolecular Kinetics and Cellular Dynamics, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This subject deals primarily with kinetic and equilibrium mathematical models of biomolecular interactions, as well as the application of these quantitative analyses to biological problems across a wide range of levels of ... -
BE.430J Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This course covers the following topics: conduction, diffusion, convection in electrolytes; fields in heterogeneous media; electrical double layers; Maxwell stress tensor and electrical forces in physiological systems; and ... -
BE.440 Analysis of Biological Networks, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This class analyzes complex biological processes from the molecular, cellular, extracellular, and organ levels of hierarchy. Emphasis is placed on the basic biochemical and biophysical principles that govern these processes. ... -
BE.441 Biomaterials-Tissue Interactions, Fall 2003
(2003-12)Principles of materials science and cell biology underlying the design of medical implants, artificial organs, and matrices for tissue engineering. Methods for biomaterials surface characterization and analysis of protein ... -
BE.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Basic molecular structural principles of biological materials. Molecular structures of various materials of biological origin, including collagen, silk, bone, protein adhesives, GFP, self-assembling peptides. Molecular ... -
BE.442 Molecular Structure of Biological Materials, Fall 2005
(2005-12)Basic molecular structural principles of biological materials. Molecular structures of various materials of biological origin, including collagen, silk, bone, protein adhesives, GFP, self-assembling peptides. Molecular ... -
BE.450 Molecular and Cellular Pathophysiology, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This courses focuses on the fundamentals of tissue and organ response to injury from a molecular and cellular perspective. There is a special emphasis on disease states that bridge infection, inflammation, immunity, and ... -
BE.453J Biomedical Information Technology, Spring 2005
(2005-06)The objective of this subject is to teach the design of contemporary information systems for biological and medical data. These data are growing at a prodigious rate, and new information systems are required. This subject ... -
BE.462J Molecular Principles of Biomaterials, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Analysis and design at a molecular scale of materials used in contact with biological systems, including biotechnology and biomedical engineering. Topics include molecular interactions between bio- and synthetic molecules ... -
CMS.100 Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2010
(2010-12)This course offers an overview of the social, cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern culture. Combines critical discussions with experiments working with different media. Media covered ... -
CMS.405 Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression, Spring 2009
(2009-06)This class examines frameworks for making and sharing visual artifacts using a trans-cultural, trans-historical, constructionist approach. It explores the relationship between perceived reality and the narrative imagination, ... -
CMS.600 / CMS.998 Videogame Theory and Analysis, Fall 2007
(2007-12)This course will serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary academic study of videogames, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. By playing, analyzing, and reading and ... -
CMS.603 / CMS.995 American Soap Operas, Spring 2008
(2008-06)The television landscape has changed drastically in the past few years; nowhere is this more prevalent than in the American daytime serial drama, one of the oldest forms of television content. This class examines the history ... -
CMS.610 / CMS.922 Media Industries and Systems, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course examines the interplay of art, science, and commerce shaping the production, marketing, distribution, and consumption of contemporary media. It combines perspectives on media industries and systems with an ...